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member name: Gather Editorial Team
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April 06, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
Court filings indicate that I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's former aide, testified that Bush had authorized the leak of pre-war intelligence. While it is unclear whether that included the identity of CIA . . . more
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March 17, 2007 04:28 PM EDT --
A federal appeals court in California ruled on Wednesday that even a woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only thing keeping her alive should not be exempted from prosecution on drug charges ("Court: . . . more
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March 05, 2007 12:18 PM EST --
Once considered the crown jewel of American veteran hospitals, Walter Reed Army Medical Center has fallen into what is being described as a “rat-invested, dilapidated state of disgrace”. . . . more
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March 30, 2006 08:28 PM EST --
The immigration debate continues, and now the mainstream press is starting to write about it. Columnist George Will takes the side that we need to maintain immigration, but keep it on the up-and-up. . . . more
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January 05, 2007 07:02 AM EST --
Gather members seem to be more open-minded than some members of Congress. Despite some protests from public figures, over three-quarters of members believe that Representative Ellison from Minnesota has . . . more
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October 23, 2006 09:19 PM EDT --
With eight days left in the month, October has already become the deadliest month yet in 2006 for U.S. forces in Iraq. Eighty-nine American soldiers have been killed, and 2,300 have died since 2003. . . . more
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November 20, 2006 12:38 AM EST --
Representative Charles Rangel, the incoming Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Sunday that he will introduce a measure to activate a military draft when the new Congress convenes . . . more
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December 26, 2006 08:01 PM EST --
President Bush announced last week his intention to increase the size of the U.S. Army and Marines, and is awaiting recommendations from new Defense Secretary Robert Gates about how to best go about doing . . . more
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October 25, 2006 11:42 PM EDT --
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that same-sex couples have the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts, requiring the state legislature to either permit same-sex marriage or provide . . . more
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March 15, 2007 10:40 AM EDT --
On Wednesday, the Pentagon released the full transcript of the military hearing at Guantanamo at which suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to those and many other terror plots. . . . more
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April 05, 2007 10:34 AM EDT --
Washington has been in an uproar for the past week over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) diplomatic trip to Syria. The trip was not cleared by either the White House or the State Department, . . . more
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July 24, 2006 07:11 AM EDT --
Floyd Landis won the Tour de France on Sunday, in the first Tour without Lance Armstrong in 8 years. The only American other than Landis and Armstrong to win the Tour was Greg LeMond who won 3 times in . . . more
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December 15, 2006 02:00 AM EST --
One man’s execution in Florida on Wednesday has sparked controversy over how the procedure was carried out. (“Executed killer took 34 minutes to die”) Angel Nieves Diaz was executed . . . more
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March 19, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
Four years ago today, the United States and its coalition partners unleashed missiles and bombs on Iraqi targets officially beginning the War in Iraq. Back then, most Americans supported the effort. . . . more
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October 17, 2006 10:08 PM EDT --
On Tuesday, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act, a law which spells out in further detail the protocols for interrogating and trying terror suspects ("Bush signs bill to interrogate, . . . more
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January 15, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
As we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the debate over the display of the Confederate flag on public grounds has resurfaced (“Biden wants Confederate flag off grounds”). Senators Joe . . . more
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October 18, 2006 08:13 PM EDT --
The United Nations General Assembly remains in a stalemate after several rounds of voting to try to pick a nation to fill a non-permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council ("U.S. and Venezuela Battle . . . more
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October 27, 2006 03:09 AM EDT --
A controversial film portraying a fictional 2007 assassination of President George W. Bush is being released today to limited audiences around the United States ("Kiss of death for 'President'?"). . . . more
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December 27, 2006 11:32 PM EST --
On Wednesday, Massachusetts’ highest court declined to force the state’s legislature to vote on whether to include an initiative on the 2008 ballot that might ban same-sex marriage (“Mass. . . . more
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January 31, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
After hearing testimony from private advocacy groups who surveyed 279 government climate scientists, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) said that “it appears there may have been an orchestrated campaign to . . . more
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